Charges Dropped Against Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Looks like Cuba Gooding, Jr. is off the hook. CNN is reporting the bartender who accused him of battery, has dropped the charges. According to the woman, Gooding shoved her when she told him he had to leave a New Orleans bar Tuesday. After Gooding and his attorney met with New Orleans police, the bar's management and the bartender chose to drop the charges.
China May Lead in the Medal Count at the Olympics, but the U.S. Rules in Tweets
The London 2012 Olympic Games are being called the "Social Games," and there's good reason behind that. Twitter has been blowing up with Olympics-related tweets, and the U.S. is behind most of them. According to Playbook by Kred.com the top mentions on Twitter as of 11:00am Tuesday (CDST) are for swimmer Ryan Lochte with 190,000! Here's the top 5...
1. @RyanLochte: 190,000
2. @MichaelPhelps: 82,000
3. @KingJames: 33,000
4. @UsainBolt: 18,000
5. @LoloJones: 12,000
"Citizen Kane" Unseated As Best Movie of All Time
Pretty much every list of the critics' best movies of all time puts "Citizen Kane" at the top of the list. Until now. Sight & Sound Magazine has done a poll for 50 years, and "Citizen Kane" always won until this year. The new number one? Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." Here's the top 10....
1. Vertigo
2. Citizen Kane
3. Tokyo Story
4. La Regle du jeu
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. The Searchers
8. Man with a Movie Camera
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. 8 1/2
Best Celebrity Tweets...
Andy Richter: "Look forward to Chick-fil-A introducing their Only Some People Are Allowed to Be Happy Meal."
Rainn Wilson: "I don't know what's worse, Olympic badminton teams purposely trying to lose, or badminton actually allowed to be considered a sport."
Stephen Colbert: "Barack Obama donated $5,000 to his own campaign. He's going to get a ton of emails from them now."
Tom Bergeron: "Salesclerk actually laughed out loud when I gave her my AOL e-mail address. Thank God she didn't see me drive off in my Model T!"
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